Mockingbird Quotes by Kevin Young

There's always been really interesting, diverse black voices talking and arguing and counterpointing.

— Kevin Young

“At night I count not the stars but the dark.”

— Kevin Young

I think Barnum is at the center of American culture. He's helping to invent what we now think of as pop culture. He invented…

— Kevin Young

I do think there's a certain savviness to be able to recognize the way people want a good story, and I think that we…

— Kevin Young

Here are the facts: my folks grew up so poor that, in the words of Redd Foxx, there were twenty o's between the p…

— Kevin Young

Even Toni Morrison claiming Bill Clinton as 'black' could not prepare us for the election of America's first undeniably black president, Barack Obama.

— Kevin Young

A DJ draws a connection between two seemingly disparate things and says, 'Look, they are alike. You can dance to them.'

— Kevin Young

Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or home cookin'…

— Kevin Young

I remember in the '80s, people would literally have arguments over the best guitarist.

— Kevin Young

In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be…

— Kevin Young

“Deep Song Belief is what buries us—that & the belief in belief— No longer do I trust liltlessness —leeward is the world's way—Go on…

— Kevin Young

Is there a bad song on 'Sign O' The Times?' There isn't.

— Kevin Young